In a rare memoir about the Negro Leagues and its celebrated players, Frazier "Slow" Robinson offers an inspiring and often entertaining view of the black Baseball diamond through a catcher\'s mask.
He lives in Kent, Ohio..
Paul Bauer is a rare book dealer specializing in baseball.
He died in 1997.
He caught for Hall-of-Fame pitchers Satchel Paige and Leon Day and played with many other legendary egro Leaguers.
About author(s): Frazier "Slow" Robinson played professional Baseball in parts of four decades beginning in the 1920s.
The Foreword by John "Buck" O\'Neil and Introduction by Gerald Early place Robinson squarely in the world of sports, African American culture, and American history.
From playing catcher for obscure industrial teams to barnstorming with Satchel Paige, he chronologically traces his nationwide path through the 1920s, \'30s, \'40s, and early \'50s.
He covers, in remarkable detail, the personal perspective of the men, the teams, and the times that shaped this uniquely American subculture.
Richly embroidered with the threads of black society and of Life as a black athlete in a racially divided nation, Robinson recounts his long career with the skill and ease of a natural storyteller.
While his career was a solid one, it was less spectacular than that of his friend and Hall-of-Famer, Satchel Paige, and so more typical of the experience of most Negro Leaguers.
Robinson played several more seasons in the Negro Leagues before finishing his career in Canada.
In 1939, at the age of 29--after playing professional Baseball for twelve years--Frazier Robinson caught the legendary Satchel Paige in barnstorming games from New Orleans to Walla Walla.
In a rare memoir about the Negro Leagues and its celebrated players, Frazier "Slow" Robinson offers an inspiring and often entertaining view of the black Baseball diamond through a catcher\'s mask
